Nicholas Knize

@nknize

PhD

Geospatial Enthusiast

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Open Source

Software Engineering

I'm Nick. I'm a Lucene committer and PMC member. I work for Amazon search services. Principal Engineer and incubator of OpenSearch, among other things. Cavaliers FMM and multi year DCI champ.

I'm open to

open source contributions,

giving resume feedback,

guest lecturing,

participating in user research,

speaking on clubhouse,

joining company boards,

speaking at events,

writing,

advising companies,

beta testing new products,

and brainstorming.

Contact Me

Resume

Nov 2020 - Present

Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Oct 2015 - Present

Apache Lucene / Solr Committer and PMC Member, The Apache Software Foundation

Things I’ve built

Wrote new ShapeDocValues format and field type for Apache Lucene, enables shape facets and aggregations in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch.

Wrote BKD Selective Indexing for Apache Lucene, enabling multidimension spatial indexing.

Wrote LatLonShape indexing and search in Apache Lucene. Revolutionizes spatial search in Lucene Core reducing index size by >100K% and boosting hour long indexing time down to milliseconds.

Speaking engagements

Gave a webinar for Alamo AFCEA on Accelerating the value of GeoINT through the power of search

Spoke and Presented at 2019 GeoINT International Symposium on using Geospatial Search for big data in Government Intelligence Applications. Engagement was highlighted in Trajectory Magazine.

Spoke at ApacheCon 2019 on Geospatial Indexing and Search at Scale in Apache Lucene

FOSS4g 2022 Talk - Geospatial Indexing in Apache Lucene and OpenSearch